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Black Dahlia E Short — Part 1

162 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Famous Crimes & Fugitives · Topic: Black Dahlia E Short · 162 pages OCR'd
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Grisly LA. murder similar fo sex slaying of seven San Diego women Southern California police officers last night noted the striking similarity between the; 1 pecan tad butcher murder of Elizabeth Short, 22, whose body was found here Wednesday, and: other unsolved San Diego Sex crimes. i Officers in the border city. im--— — : mediately feared that San Diego's, dered:in the Indian Village, Balboa sadistié woman killer, already ‘be- Bark. She had been stabbed 17 lieved responsible for at least times. - oe nso ae While still investigating these ' even u - Wed murders, was’ on three murders, police were called the prow?! again, — a to the apartment of Maud Det- For 15 years, police and psychol- | wiler, attractive divorcee. She, ogists have agreed that the killer | too, had been raped and sadisti- Was a sexual sadist whose crimes cy slain, thi Jull be _ : . : . There wag a three year Iu ~ ; Mereased in brutality. fore the sex fiend struck again, By studying the records of un- solved cases, they conjectured Then, on the morning of Marth 4, that Miss Short, who worked and 1934, police found Mrs. Wesley d. he victim & killer , | lived in San Diego, could well be | seems Gd the victim of 4 “kille imili mn to th the mad Killer's ‘atest vietim—in |frst Gene Cees Pattonn to the ; first three crimes. : the most brutal crime of them all. . manee rime San Diego was. pes’ ;Stting of unsolved erimes| shocked by one of the shost bai _ began in Peb., 1931, when Virginia | fling of ali sex crime cases. Hang- Brooks, 10-yeat-old schoolgirl, was, img from a tree on Block Moun- . lured into an auto, raped and mur- tain was the nude body of pretty dered. Her body, trussed in.a gun-|Touise Teuber, 17-year-old clerk. ny-sack, was found months ldter.| ~ 4 rope around her neck was On April 25 of the same year,| tied to the limbs of two trees, tlie. body of Dolly Bibbens, attrac-ibut an autopsy indicated she had’ _ tie, well-to-do widow, was found | been raped and muirdered élge-. inj her apartment. She had been where, before being tied to the jously beaten after first being before she entered her home after . attending a movie. . She had been raped several ‘times, tortured and.strangied. So incenged was San Diego that the entire police administration was replaced, but still no clues to the mad slayer were found. Next, and perhaps most specta- cular in the series, was the brutal murder of Miss Ruth Muir, River- side YWCA secretary, and daugh- ter of a prominent Phoenix ‘bank. er. Visiting her vacationing parents! in La Jolla, .Miss Muir ‘walked. along the moon-lit shore of La Jolla on the night of Sept. 2, 1936. She had paused behind a lover's bench, near the Casa Manana pokes when the killer set upon er. Police said they had never own @& murder in which the. yictim’s head was so hysterically beater. She, too, had been raped,. and slashed. But the most vicious killing gf ail—and perhaps No, & in the ‘Serles—was the murder of Mi A : Short, whose mutilated and Hie! Celia Cota, 16-year-old high |-sected body was discavered heke. School’ beauty, was murdered just: Wednesday, moome temen emma a aes ER Nat ate IR Oana a A amen TU 4 watetentamntten poarenen ‘Vi ‘trees, . . Faped, . , ; Before the ‘surnmer ended, the Two weeks later, Hazet Brad-.| sadist gtruck again, | Shaw, beautiful. 22-year-old tele- : Phoné: operato®, was-found mur- , evanactoeen Ti mteaatornnareanscoran R Coven Beane: t > ae ‘Seroneetreneeramnununce-noneemnh th mtn os caacananennettebistessgnnanaen Seales stats wanantnlnntntan Nee renmianeonINiiutnn >
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